The global community is a reflection of the work environment. The varied cultures of our existence create a mixing bowl filled with not only our differences but similarities. This mixing bowl integrates daily living and work scenarios. The work environment can embrace the diversities and grow from the richness of the diversity or it can splinter and divide. The division can create opposing factions and intentional or unintentional discrimination. Diversity not only involves how people perceive themselves, but how they perceive others and how those perceptions affect others.

Greene (2004) states “there can be many benefits of workplace diversity. There is increased adaptability.” Individuals bring talent and experience. They can suggest flexible alternatives in the business market. There is a broader range of service, variety of viewpoints and a more effective execution of duties resulting in increased productivity of its employees. There are also challenges. There are communication language barriers and resistance to change. No only are there multicultural differences but differences of religion, disabilities, and ethnicity. All must incorporate to create and environment where all people fee safe and are fee to contribute their best.

As a challenge to difference in physical difference, the left-handed exercise focused on a morning using the non-dominant hand. Lefties make up about 10% of our population. Left-handed are unintentionally left out of our right-handed world in work and home life. If one hand is left out of the equation life becomes significantly harder. The simple acts such as getting dressed, tying shoes, cooking, cleaning, and helping with children’s homework become thought

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Key words: culture, culturaldiversity, managing diversity, diverse group
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Introduction
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Conclusion:
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Problem Statement
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Changing CulturalDiversity in the Workplace
Mary J. Shaw
Altenburg, Missouri
Abstract
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Melissa LeClaire
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SOCS-350N-21227: CulturalDiversity in the Professions
Fall Term September 2014
Latino, Woman and Accent Discrimination
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Evaluation
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CulturalDiversity in Nursing
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Background and Historical Development of CulturalDiversity in Nursing
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Abstract
The cultural context for the Armenian person is the result of upholding and defending a way of life and values that have been maintained for centuries, for perhaps two thousand years. For that reason, although Armenians living in the United States today come from a variety of countries of origin, and may to some extent speak different dialects or even different languages, yet they have many cultural similarities due to centuries of commonality. The cultural similarities among the Armenians can be seen mainly in three different areas: Spirituality, historicity, and family.
Spirituality refers to the perspective of that which is valued in life, and that which must to be upheld and defended under any and all circumstances, regardless of the social environment and surrounding conditions.
Historicity refers to that which has been traditionally done, the Armenian way of life,'  both that which is important and perhaps not as important. Whereas spirituality may refer more to content,' the important values in life, historicity refers more to the living process,' how the important values in life are attained.
Family on the other hand is the everyday living environment within which spirituality and historicity are applied and lived out. Family' in the Armenian community refers to more than the family of origin or the nuclear family. Instead, it...